F2F Class Notes (Nemo)[W]

Vocabulary

turn 16, nine o’clock, etc. (v): to become a particular age or time
达到16岁/9点钟(等等)
E.g.: She turned 18 last year.
她去年满18岁。
E.g.: It’s just turned ten o’clock.
刚到10点。

bring sb up (v):
brought | brought
to care for a child until he or she is an adult, often giving him or her particular beliefs
养育,抚养;教养
E.g.: She was brought up by her grandmother.
她是她祖母养大的。
E.g.: They brought her up (as/to be) a Catholic.
他们把她从小培养成为天主教徒。
E.g.: David was brought up to respect authority.
戴维从小就被教育要尊重权威。

abroad (adv) [after verb] (OTHER COUNTRY)
in or to a foreign country or countries
在国外;到国外
E.g.: He’s currently abroad on business.
目前他在国外出差。
E.g.: We always go abroad in the summer.
我们夏天总是到国外去。

quarrel (v):to have an angry disagreement with someone
争吵,不和
E.g.: What did you quarrel about/over?
你们为什么而争吵?
E.g.: She quarreled with everyone in the village.
她跟村里的每一个人都争吵过。

only/just couple of people know about this

my mother is very supportive of me-我妈妈很支持我

compatible (adj): able to exist, live together, or work successfully with something or someone else
可共存的;协调的;兼容的
E.g.: It was when we started living together that we found we just weren’t compatible.
等到开始生活在一起时,才发现我们根本合不来。
E.g.: This software may not be compatible with older operating systems.
该软件可能与较老的操作系统不兼容。

Writing exercise

I love my family very much.My parents are also over 60 years old,so they were already retired.My father is a company of manager and my mother is a company’s staff after retired.They help me to take care my baby together now,so I appreciate for them.My son was born in 2018,he is one year old this year.He’s a cute boy.As his mother,I think I have many responsibility of him.I hope my baby to grow up healthy and happy,it’s the most important thing. My son’s father is a business man,so he always is very busy.He often goes to be business trips. Although he hasn’t much time to take care of baby,but we are all love our children so much.The last but not the least,I hope that my family can be better and better.

I love my family very much. Both of My parents are also over 60 years old,so they were already retired. My father was a company of manager and my mother was a company’s staff before she retired. They‘re helping/They help me me to take care of my baby together now,so I appreciate their help. My son was born in 2018,this year he will turn one. He’s a cute boy. As his mother,I think that I have full responsibility for bringing him up. I hope my baby grow up healthy and happy,it’s the most important thing. My son’s father is a business man,so he’s always is very busy. He often goes on a business trips. Although he doesn’t have much time to take care of our/the baby, he’s doing his best to be a good father. We are all love our child so much.The last but not the least,I hope that my family can be better and better/continue to improve and grow.